2. Media and the Sacred: An Evaluation of the ‘Strong Program’ within Cultural Sociology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. 1. Introduction: Social Media and Religious Change 1
4. 2. Media and the Sacred: An Evaluation of the ‘Strong Program’ within Cultural Sociology 15
5. 3. Christianity, Secularism and Religious Diversity in the British Media 37
6. 4. Religion for a Postsecular Society? Discourses of Gender, Religion and Secularity in the Reception of BBC2’s The Monastery and The Convent 59
7. 5. Paradise Lost? Islamophobia, Post-liberalism and the Dismantling of State Multiculturalism in the Netherlands: The Role of Mass and Social Media 79
8. 6. Modern-day Martyrs: Fans’ Online Reconstruction of Celebrities as Divine 103
9. 7. Radical Islam, Globalisation and Social Media: Martyrdom Videos on the Internet 121
10. 8. Grassroots Religion: Facebook and Offline Post-Denominational Judaism 143
11. 9. Truck Stops and Fashion Shows: A Case Study of the Discursive Performance of Evangelical Christian Group Affiliation on YouTube 165
12. 10. Bounded Religious Communities’ Management of the Challenge of New Media: Baha’í Negotiation with the Internet 185
13. 11. Life, Death and Everyday Experience of Social Media 201
14. 12. List of Contributors 219
15. Index 223